ALLMAN BROTHERS Announce Add'l Tour Dates & WIDESPREAD PANIC Joining up

     MUSIC NEWS - Legendary southern rockers, The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND have announced the next two legs of their USA 40th Anniversary tour (full itinerary below) . After some May West Coast dates with the Doobie Brothers (at select shows), the rock 'n roll icons will share the stage with fellow Georgian rockers, Widespread Panic for their summer and fall run of shows that begin on August 21 in Camden, NJ.

The two groups will spend the end of summer on the east coast with gigs in Canandaigua, NY and Gilford, NH before performing at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY August 27 (NYC Area). A gig in Mansfield, MA and Hartford, CT will follow before back-to-back shows at the Charter One Pavilion in Chicago close out this leg of the tour.  After a brief rest, ABB and WP will pick it up with two shows at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Charlotte, NC kicking off a southern trek that takes them through Virginia, Raleigh, NC, Knoxville and Nashville, TN before two final shows in the Lone Star State on October 16 at the Superpages.com Center in Dallas and October 17 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston.

The nationwide trek comes after the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND--GREGG ALLMAN (vocals and keyboards), BUTCH TRUCKS (drums and tympani), JAIMOE (drums), WARREN HAYNES (vocals, lead

and slide guitar), DEREK TRUCKS (slide and lead guitar), OTEIL BURBRIDGE (bass) and MARC QUINONES (congas and percussion)—wrapped up the '09 residency at the Beacon Theatre in NYC where ABB performed 101 songs in fifteen nights with the help of a who’s who of musician friends sitting in on various nights.  The amazing "guests" including Eric Clapton, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of the Dead, Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish, John Bell and Jimmy Herring of Widespread Panic, Sheryl Crow, Billy Gibbons, Kid Rock, Bruce Hornsby, and Levon Helm, among many others. To honor their 40th birthday on March 26, the night was a special “Evening With” show (no guests) where the band performed their 1969 self-titled debut in its entirety as the opening set. All 15 of the Beacon shows were broadcasted on the webcast site,  moogis.com, the brainchild of Butch Trucks.

Athens, GA’s Widespread Panic (buy WP cds here) , celebrating over 23 years together, will be joining the Brothers for the summer and fall trek. After years of relentless touring, Panic continues to be one of the biggest selling bands on the road today. They have sold out venues across the country, from New York’s Madison Square Garden to their record strength of sold out nights at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Although both bands have shared the stage at a number of festivals, this will be their first extensive joint tour outing.

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